Children with special medical or health-care needs often present teachers and other educators with personal and professional challenges. Why has it been historically difficult for educators to identify which children will present early childhood special educators with personal and professional challenges?
What will be an ideal response?
It has been historically difficult to identify which children will present special educators with challenges related to health needs. Student responses may vary but they should include the fact that there is no universally accepted profile for which students and which medical or health needs consistently constitute increased supports within the school setting. The second reason is largely due to differences in terminology used across individuals. Teachers oftentimes encounter different terms to describe similar health needs. For example, they may run into descriptive labels such as chronically ill, technologically dependent, medically fragile, and other health impaired. This diversity in terms makes it difficult to pinpoint the specific needs of each child or to plan how best to serve them. One final reason for the difficulty in determining which children will present educators with challenges in the learning environment is the complexity of health issues typically found within this population of children. The labels that children have are often inappropriate in accurately relaying the medical needs of the child.
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